Introduction
Computex 2024 AMD formally announces AMD Ryzen 9000, their 5th generation consumer desktop processor, and delivers a teaser for the data center. While these AMD Ryzen CPUs are geared towards peak gaming performance, that shouldn’t detract from the productivity they can deliver in certain applications. Let's go over the newly announced Zen 5 Ryzen offerings:
AMD Ryzen 9000X Specifications
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X | AMD Ryzen 9 9900X | AMD Ryzen 7 9700X | AMD Ryzen 5 9600X | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cores/Threads | 16C/32T | 12C/24T | 8C/16T | 6C/12T |
Max Boost Clock | 5.7GHz | 5.6GHz | 5.5GHz | 5.4GHz |
Cache | 80MB | 76MB | 40MB | 38MB |
TDP | 170W | 120W | 65W | 65W |
5th Gen AMD Ryzen is powered by the AMD Zen 5 core built on the same AM5 platform which means that 5th Gen Ryzen can be used in last gen motherboards. AMD has also committed to deliver CPUs for the AM5 platform to 2027.
Zen 5 is an engineering marvel, featuring more performance and more efficiency.
- Improved branch prediction accuracy
- Reduce latency
- Increased performance per clock
- Increase instructions per clock
- Higher throughput
AMD Zen 5 delivers up to a 2x increase in instruction bandwidth, data bandwidth, and AI performance compared to Zen 4 with an average 16% average IPC uplift. Zen 5 seen in consumer and desktop processors will also power the data center.
Teasing 5th Gen AMD EPYC Turin
A very brief but very important announcement was 5th Gen AMD EPYC Turing. Still using the SP5 socket, the newest EPYC announced is likely a successor to Bergamo. EPYC Turin will utilize Zen 5c a cut-down version of Zen 5 cores where the cache and size are significantly reduced to fit additional cores on the CPU.
5th Gen AMD EPYC Turin delivers 192 Zen 5C cores, trumping the EPYC Bergamo 9754 (128 cores) by 64 entire cores! AMD already has a stronghold in high-core density cores with 4th Gen Bergamo, but 5th Gen AMD EPYC Turin further extends their lead. A dual AMD EPYC Turin deployment delivers 384 Cores and 786 threads, an unheard-of per-node density.
These high-core count data center processors are perfect for powering enterprise cloud, where cores can be allocated and split up for different clients. Cloud-based workloads, virtualization servers, and other non-highly intensive applications can take advantage of the ample number of efficient cores in Zen 5c. Specifications and other AMD EPYC Turin CPU models have not yet been released, but we can expect 5th Gen EPYC to be delivered in 2H of 2024.
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